Tarsonemus lobosus Suski, 1965b

Gheblealivand, Saeide S., Irani-Nejad, Karim Haddad, Magowski, Wojciech Ł. & Manzari, Shahab, 2018, The genus Tarsonemus Canestrini and Fanzago, 1876 (Acari: Heterostigmatina: Tarsonemidae) in East Azerbaijan, Iran, with a description of T. lenticulatus sp. nov. and re-description of T. annotatus Livshits, Mitrofanov and Sharonov, 1979, Zootaxa 4446 (1), pp. 13-38 : 30

Tarsonemus lobosus Suski, 1965b

Material examined: 5 females, Jolfa, Siahrood town commune, 38°52'17"N, 46°01'29"E, 767 m. a.s.l., ex soil, 26- March-2014 ; 10 females, Marand , Alinja village commune, 38°25'54"N, 46°00'06"E, 1,785 m.a.s.l., ex apple leaves, 25-April-2014 ; 1 female, Marand , Osdaghi village commune, 38°24'38"N, 45°52'01"E, 1,485 m.a.s.l., ex apple leaves, 25-April-2014 ; 1 female, Marand, Molla–Yusef village commune, 38°23'19"N, 45°45'37"E, 1,580 m.a.s.l., ex litter and soil, 25-April-2014; 5 females, Marand , Bangin village commune, 38°27'00"N, 45°50'24"E, 1,375 m.a.s.l., ex litter and soil, 23-May-2014 ; 2 females, Marand, Dovlat–Abad village commune, 38°26'59"N, 45°49'46"E, 1,385 m.a.s.l., ex litter and soil, 23-May-2014; 2 females, Marand , Yamchi town commune, 38°30'37"N, 45°39'37"E, 1,263 m.a.s.l., ex apple leaves, 23-May-2014 ; 1 female, Jolfa, Gordian plain commune, 38°52'33"N, 45°42'26"E, 970 m.a.s.l., ex apricot leaves, 29-May-2014; 10 females, Marand city commune 38°25'56"N, 45°45'16"E, 1,404 m.a.s.l., ex litter and soil, 27-June-2014 ; 2 females, Marand , Seyvan village commune, 38°20'59"N, 45°47'48"E, 1,857 m.a.s.l., ex apple leaves, 27-June-2014 ; 8 females, Zunuz , Chirchir village commune, 38°36'11"N, 45°48'02"E, 1,429 m.a.s.l., ex apple leaves, 15-August-2014 ; 2 females, Zunuz , Chirchir village commune, 38°33'54"N, 45°43'35"E, 1,429 m.a.s.l., ex litter and soil, 15-August-2014 ; 1 female, Zunuz , Daraq village commune, 38°35'54"N, 45°51'26"E, 1,846 m.a.s.l., ex litter and soil, 15-August-2014 ; 25 females, Marand city commune 38°25'56"N, 45°45'16"E, 1,404 m.a.s.l., ex apple leaves, 12-September-2014 ; 5 females, Sufiyan , Torp village commune, 38°19'53"N, 46°08'55"E, 1,607 m.a.s.l., ex litter and soil, 10-October- 2014 ; 4 females, Sufiyan , Ivand village commune, 38°19'58"N, 46°07'03"E, 1,587 m.a.s.l., ex litter and soil, 10- October-2014 ; 2 females, Sufiyan , Torp village commune, 38°19'32"N, 46°08'26"E, 1,537 m.a.s.l., ex apple leaves, 10-October-2014 ; 11 females, Marand , Yekankahriz village commune, 38°40'15"N, 45°23'52"E, 1,376 m.a.s.l., ex soil and litter, 24-October-2014; all coll. S. Gheblealivand.

Distribution: Palearctic; probably cosmopolitan.

Remarks: Previous records for Iran: Markazi (Saveh, associated with pomegranate trees, Sorush 1994); Kurdistan (associated with strawberry cultivations, Mansour Ghazi et al. 2006); Tehran (Malard research station, Mirjamali et al. 2008).